Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 462 God War
Ten days on the ship, one day on earth.

When Ren Yuan and Chen Qingzhi returned to the camp in Beizhong City, only one night had passed.

Ah Yao was already pacing around anxiously. Last night, in the blink of an eye, Ren Yuan had been taken away by Chen Qingzhi and could not be found again.

Although she knew Chen Shuai wouldn't betray Ren Yuan, A Yao still felt uneasy because he wasn't in front of her.

"Oh dear, Commander Chen, you two are finally back! If you hadn't come back, Miss Yao would have torn down your tent!" Gongsun Lu greeted the two of them as if they were his saviors.

"Haha, Yao, are you afraid I'll sell your little lover?" Chen Qingzhi couldn't help but laugh.

"Just tell me where you're going," Ayao muttered shyly, feeling relieved as soon as she saw Ren Yuan.

"I was afraid you'd worry if I told you," Chen Qingzhi said with a smile. "If I took you with me, you'd worry even more."

"What exactly are you guys going to do here?" Ayao asked curiously.

"Good news." Ren Yuan was about to tell his senior sister about his experience last night when he heard an urgent alarm bell ringing from the city wall.

"Let's go take a look." Chen Qingzhi said, and darted out of the command tent, with Ren Yuan and the others quickly following.

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When the generals escorted Chen Qingzhi to the city wall, they saw banners outside the city that blotted out the sun. Yuan Ziyou's dragon banner was also there, but the largest and most eye-catching was Erzhu Rong's wolf-head banner—on the blood-red banner, a huge frontal wolf head was embroidered, with piercing green eyes and sharp teeth ready to devour anyone who looked at it, enough to make one tremble with fear at a glance!

Beneath the banners stood Erzhu Rong's 150,000-strong army, their dense formation stretching as far as the eye could see, completely encircling the three sides of Beizhong City that were not near the river.

This is all that Erzhu Rong and Yuan Ziyou have left. If they lose again this time, Erzhu Rong will be powerless to help.

But Erzhu Rong firmly believed that he could defeat the White Robe Army, because he had the invincible Qihu Iron Cavalry, and even more so because he was the invincible Heavenly Slaughter God!

Erzhu Rong spurred his towering black horse, over ten feet tall, to the front lines for inspection. The Wei soldiers whose gaze swept over him were all filled with fervor, letting out thunderous roars:

"Hurrah!"

"Hurrah!" The roars grew more and more frequent.

"Hurrah!" The last hundred thousand Wei soldiers roared in unison, causing the sturdy city walls to tremble!

The white-robed soldiers on the city wall remained unmoved and silent. It wasn't that they were afraid, but rather that they no longer needed to muster courage through shouting. From the defeat of Qiu Daqian at Suiyang, the capture of Yuan Huiye at Kaocheng, to the slaying of Yang Yu at Xingyang, they had long since forged themselves into sharp swords, silent and unseen in their sheaths, their blades concealed; but when drawn, they were filled with murderous intent, drinking their fill of blood!

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Almost without any prelude, the bugle call of the Qihu soldiers tore through the morning mist.

Amidst the resounding bugle calls, the Qihu cavalry launched their charge, followed by tens of thousands of Wei soldiers carrying sandbags in a grand procession.

The Qihu cavalry leading the way were not only clad in heavy armor, but their warhorses were also clad in chainmail and even wore metal masks, revealing only their blood-red eyes, like demons crawling out of hell.

Their duty was to cover the infantry as they filled in the moat. Enchanted by the bloodthirst of the Heavenly Slaughter God, their attack power was greatly enhanced, making them impervious to blades and spears, and immune to ordinary spells.

But before they even got close to the moat, they stumbled into a trap set by the White-Robed Army—the mud was filled with countless iron caltrops buried by the White-Robed Army. If a horse stepped on them, it would either bleed profusely or suffer a broken leg!

This utterly shocked the Qihu cavalry. The Heavenly Slaughter God hadn't just enhanced their defenses; their warhorses should have been impervious to blades and spears as well. Yet now, the supposedly invincible armored cavalry reverted to flesh and blood, completely unable to withstand the damage from those three-edged iron spikes.

The warhorses' eyes returned to normal, filled with terror and pain, and they instantly turned into trapped beasts trampling each other... The warhorses that fell dead in the front row became chevaux-de-frise, and the cavalry in the second row tried to stop, but were pushed forward by the main force in the rear and crashed into them.

The cracking sound of bones breaking could be heard clearly even from the city walls, not to mention the agonizing cries of men and horses...

“Shoot!”

"Fire arrows!"

"Release!" On the three city walls, Song Jingxiu, Ji Buli, and Yuchi Bei, who were in charge of command, shouted simultaneously.

Thousands of crossbows, each three fingers wide, trembled simultaneously as they unleashed a rain of arrows! This was no ordinary rain of arrows, but rather a barrage of fiery crow arrows!
After Zu Geng upgraded the Fire Crow Arrow, the shaft was wrapped with talisman paper soaked in fire oil, and it would ignite upon contact with iron armor. It should be called the Fire Dragon Arrow!
The wind from the Yellow River fanned the flames, turning the three thousand Qihu armored cavalry into burning pots. They screamed and rolled on the ground, knocking down groups of infantrymen carrying sandbags behind them, many of whom were burned alive.

Seeing this, the infantrymen behind them threw sandbags at them to put out the fire. The fire was extinguished, but the men were crushed to death...

Seeing this, Erzhu Rong panicked. He leaped up, over his own disheveled soldiers, and charged towards the white-robed army on the city wall. He was going to use the same tactic again, to solve the problem himself!

Erzhu Rong waved a blood-red command flag, and the Yellow River suddenly boiled, from which tens of thousands of headless water ghosts crawled out.

Upon closer inspection, the tattered clothes on the water ghosts revealed that many were the fine garments of high-ranking officials and nobles of the Northern Wei Dynasty. They were the victims of the Heyin Incident, whose heads were cut off by Erzhu Rong and used to build a mound of skulls, while their bodies were thrown into the river to suppress the evil spirits, and they all ended up looking like this.

The water ghosts, dripping with green venom that could corrode metal, frantically rushed towards the city wall using both hands and feet, following the blood bridge erected by Erzhu Rong.

The soldiers in white robes were terrified at the sight and quickly tried to turn their crossbows around to intercept the attack.

But then Chen Qingzhi shouted, "Don't get distracted, I'll deal with him!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers of the White Robe Army felt reassured and stopped paying attention to the menacing water ghosts, focusing instead on dealing with the enemy troops below the city.

"You think you can kill mere demigod? You're overestimating yourself!" Erzhu Rong sneered, unleashing a blood-red aura at Chen Qingzhi, intending to kill him on the spot!

"You're overestimating yourself!" But then Chen Qingzhi had a jade chess box in his hand, and he put the blood demon directly into the box.

Then he covered the chess box with the swarming water ghosts, and countless arrows of light, some deep and some shallow, shot out from the box, killing all the water ghosts on the spot!

Before the soldiers of both armies could see clearly, the water ghosts had already fallen back into the river like dumplings being dropped into boiling water.

Only Erzhu Rong could see clearly that the pieces shot out of the chess box were black and white chess pieces, and that they had borrowed his own blood essence to have such power.

But he only thought the chess box was some kind of magical artifact, and sneered, "If you want to fight me, you'll have to rely on your own abilities!"

As he spoke, he raised his halberd and thrust it at Chen Qingzhi's face, piercing through his yin and yang with a single blow!
But Chen Qingzhi calmly took off his white robe, flicked it in the air, and turned into a Tai Chi, dissolving the earth-shattering halberd strike without a trace, leaving only black and white in the world!
Erzhu Rong's eyes widened suddenly, and he exclaimed, "You've actually become a god too!"

(End of this chapter)